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Opinion Polling For The 2018 Slovenian Parliamentary Election
In the run up to the 2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, various organisations carry out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Slovenia. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls are from the previous general election, held on 13 July 2014, to the present day. The next parliamentary election was held on 3 June 2018. Pollsters There are multiple opinion research companies that conduct election polling on a regular basis within Slovenia, generally publishing poll results on a monthly basis: * ''Episcenter'', published by Planet SiOL.net and Planet TV; * ''Mediana'', published by the Slovenian television channel POP TV and their respective multimedia web portal 24ur.com; * ''Ninamedia'', variably published by either POP TV,the public broadcaster RTV SLO and/or the Slovenian daily newspaper ''Dnevnik''; * ''Delo Stik'', which is the in-house opinion polling organization of the Slovenian daily newspaper Delo; * ''Parsifal SC, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Slovenian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 3 June 2018. The elections were originally expected to be held later in June 2018, but after the resignation of Prime Minister Miro Cerar on 14 March 2018 all parties called for snap elections. They were the third consecutive snap elections after 2011 and 2014. Background On 14 March 2018, Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia delivered a judgement regarding the railway referendum, held in 2017 on the construction of a second railway connection from Koper to Divača. In the judgement, the court annulled the results and ordered a new vote. The railway link was the biggest project of the Cerar cabinet. Later that day, Prime Minister Cerar announced that he would resign from the post at a press conference following a cabinet meeting. Cerar explained that he had resigned due to bad relations within the coalition between the Social Democrats (SD) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) following a decision of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Slovenia
New Slovenia – Christian Democrats ( sl, Nova Slovenija – Krščanski demokrati, NSi) is a Christian-democratic, conservative political party in Slovenia. Since 2018, it is led by Matej Tonin. The party was formed on 4 August 2000 following a split in the unified Slovenian People's Party and Slovene Christian Democrats (SLS+SKD). NSi is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and in the European Parliament its MEP Ljudmila Novak sits with the EPP Group. At the most recent Slovenian parliamentary election in 2022, NSi secured 6.86% of all votes, thus gaining 8 seats in the National Assembly. History Establishment In July 2000, Andrej Bajuk, by the time Prime Minister of a centre-right coalition government, and other centrist Christian democrats disagreed with the rest of the Slovenian People's Party (SLS+SKD) over the question of a new electoral system. While Bajuk wanted the National Assembly to abandon proportional representation, the SLS+SKD party voted agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Initiative For Democratic Socialism
Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS) was a Slovenian Marxist party, founded in 2014. Its collective leadership structure without an individual leader, inspired by Occupy Wall Street,Neki novi tovariši... , 13 November 2013 was conceived by members of The Workers and Punks University in November 2013, and only allows for a coordinator of the IDS council, a position held by , elected by the IDS council. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Left (Slovenia)
United Left ( sl, Združena levica, abbreviated ZL) was a left-wing electoral alliance in Slovenia between the (DSD), (TRS), and Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS). The alliance was also founded by a "fourth group" of non-party civic groups and movements, and autonomous individuals. On 24 June 2017, two of the constituent parties – TRS and IDS – merged into a single party. The alliance is succeeded by The Left ( sl, Levica, formerly TRS and IDS), and DSD, which has adopted the new title, ZL-DSD. History The alliance was formed as a socialist and eurosceptic electoral list with the intention of contesting local, European parliament, and general elections. ZL made its electoral debut during the 2014 European Parliament election where it did not garner a sufficient vote share to be granted any seats. Its electoral breakthrough came during the 2014 Slovenian parliamentary election, gaining the 5th most votes and being granted 6 parliamentary seats. The alliance did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Alliance
An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political party, political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections. Each of the parties within the alliance has its own policy, policies but chooses temporarily to put aside differences in favour of common goals and ideology in order to pool their voters' support and get elected. On occasion, an electoral alliance may be formed by parties with very different policy goals, which agree to pool resources in order to stop a particular candidate or party from gaining power. Unlike a coalition formed after an election, the partners in an electoral alliance usually do not run candidates against one another but encourage their supporters to vote for candidates from the other members of the alliance. In some agreements with a larger party enjoying a higher degree of success at the polls, the smaller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miro Cerar
Miroslav Cerar Jr. (, known as Miro Cerar ;) is a Slovenian law professor and politician. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia, leading the 12th Government. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 13th Government. He is a full professor at the Chair of Theory and Sociology of Law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law. Cerar was born on 25 August 1963. After graduating in law, he was employed by the Ljubljana Faculty of Law. In the late 1980s, he actively participated in the efforts for the democratisation and state independence of Slovenia. In 1990 and 1991, he participated in drafting the Basic Constitutional Charter on the Sovereignty and Independence of the Republic of Slovenia and the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia. Between 1992 and 2014, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Ljubljana University, and an external adviser to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for constitutional and other legal matters. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic List (Slovenia)
Civic List ( sl, Državljanska lista, DL) is an inactive classical-liberal extra-parliamentary political party in Slovenia, led by Gregor Virant. LGV won 8.37% of the vote at the early 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, thus gaining 8 seats in the National Assembly. After a quit of its deputy group by one of its deputies in April 2012, it has had 7 seats. Until April 2012 the party was named Gregor Virant's Civic List (, LGV). History Virant, former Minister of Public Administration in Janez Janša's government between 2004–2008 and chairman of the civil platform Rally for the Republic (Slovene: ''Zbor za republiko'') announced on 10 October 2011, that he would form a list to participate in the early parliamentary election, following the fall of the government of Borut Pahor. The party was officially chartered on 21 October 2011 in Ljubljana. Among the supporters of the party is the entrepreneur and owner of Pipistrel company Ivo Boscarol, who stated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Positive Slovenia
Positive Slovenia ( sl, Pozitivna Slovenija, PS) was a centre-left political party in Slovenia, following April 2014 led by founder Zoran Janković. The party was founded under the name ''Zoran Janković's List – Positive Slovenia''. It was renamed to ''Positive Slovenia'' in its second congress, held on 21 January 2012. History On 11 October 2011, Janković, then mayor of Ljubljana, announced that he would participate in the early parliamentary election, following the fall of the government of Prime Minister Borut Pahor. The charter of the new party was enacted on 22 October 2011, where Janković was unanimously elected president. Among the party's supporters were National Assembly members Matjaž Zanoškar, Cveta Zalokar Oražem, and Renata Brunskole. Milan Kučan, the first President of Slovenia, also expressed his support, citing Janković's work as the chairman of the retailing chain, Mercator, and as the mayor of Ljubljana. Among the goals of the party that Janko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New People's Party Of Slovenia
The New People's Party of Slovenia ( Slovene: ''Nova ljudska stranka Slovenije'', NLS) was a political party in Slovenia. The party, which evolved from the so-called "Mayor's list" (Slovene: ''Županova lista''), was founded on 12 May 2016 by former Maribor mayor, Franc Kangler. In February 2018, it was revealed that NLS would be joining forces with the party Voice for Children and Families to form United Right, an electoral alliance, to jointly contest the upcoming 2018 Slovenian parliamentary election. The party, along with Voice for Children and Families, was said to function as a "satellite" of the largest conservative party in Slovenia, the Slovenian Democratic Party, since it could enable it to form a coalition of loyal, seemingly independent parties. The party ultimately merged into the Slovenian Democratic Party The Slovenian Democratic Party ( sl, Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS), formerly the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia ( sl, Socialdemokratska stranka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice For Children And Families
The Voice for Children and Families ( Slovene: ''Glas za otroke in družine'', short name ZA OTROKE!) is a right-wing Slovenian political party. The party was founded on 25 March 2017 by Aleš Primc and Metka Zevnik as an electoral arm of a movement of which they are also leaders of, the Movement for Children and Families, the initial purpose of which was to overturn a law passed by the National Assembly which would recognize same sex marriage in the Republic of Slovenia. Background The Movement, first called "Coalition For the Children!", collected a sufficient number of signatures to declare a referendum challenging the new Marriage and Family Relations Act, as per article 90 of the Slovenia's constitution. The law was subsequently rejected when the referendum was held on 20 December 2015. Primc had since proposed an alternative law, which would grant more legal rights to same-sex couples, but would not recognize same-sex marriage or put same-sex couples them on an equal foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenian People's Party
The Slovenian People's Party ( sl, Slovenska ljudska stranka, , Slovene abbreviation SLS ) is a conservative, agrarian, Christian-democratic political party in Slovenia. Formed in 1988 under the name of Slovenian Peasant Union as the first democratic political organization in Yugoslavia, it changed its name to Slovenian People's Party in 1992. On 15 April 2000 it merged with the Slovene Christian Democrats to form the SLS+SKD Slovenian People's Party, and changed its name in 2001 to Slovenian People's Party. SLS won seats in the National Parliament in general elections in Slovenia in the years 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011, but missed the parliamentary threshold in 2014. SLS won 6.83% of the vote at the early 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, thus gaining 6 seats in the National Assembly. From March 2013 to December 2014, Franc Bogovič led SLS. In the 2014 European Parliamentary elections, SLS got their first seat in the European Parliament with Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenian National Party
The Slovenian National Party ( sl, Slovenska Nacionalna Stranka, SNS) is a Nationalism, nationalist List of political parties in Slovenia, political party in Slovenia led by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti. The party is known for its Euroscepticism and opposes Slovenia's membership in NATO.Krupnick, Charles (2003)''Almost NATO: Partners and Players in Central and Eastern European Security'' Rowman & Littlefield. p. 98. Retrieved 2 June 2014.Aarebrot, Berglund, Sten; Ekman, Joakim; Frank H. (2004)''The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe'' Edward Elgar. p. 342. Retrieved 2 June 2014. It also engages in what many consider to be historical negationism of events in Slovenia during World War II."All Politicians In Croatia Are Animals" Dalje.com. 20 January 2008. Retrieved 2 June 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
